Marianne Vos

Marianne Vos
	Marianne Vos (2018)
To person
Nickname	Flying Dutchwoman
Date of birth	13th May 1987 (age 33)
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Roads , trains , cross
height	168 cm
Racing weight	58 kg
To the team
Current team	CCC-Liv
function	driver
Most important successes
	Olympic games Points race 2008 Road race 2012 UCI Road World Championships Road races 2006, 2012, 2013 UCI rail world championships Points race 2008 Scratch 2011 UCI World Cross Championships 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 UCI Road World Cup 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 UCI Women's WorldTour 2019
	Last updated: February 10, 2020

Marianne Vos in a cyclo-cross race (2007)

Vos with the gold medal at the World Track Championships 2011

Marianne Vos wins the race at the Road World Championships in Florence (2013)

Marianne Vos (born May 13, 1987 in 's-Hertogenbosch ) is a Dutch cyclist . She is a two-time Olympic champion and a twelve-time world champion.

Vos is successful in a wide variety of cycling disciplines , both on the road and on the track , as well as in cross-country races and on a mountain bike . Her particular strength is acceleration, which makes her one of the best sprinters in road races and the most successful driver in one-day races .

Cycling career

Marianne Vos has been active in competitive cycling since 2001. In 2002 she became Dutch youth road racing champion, but at that time she mainly drove cyclo-cross races. In 2004 she was the junior world champion in road racing at the road world championships in Verona .

In 2006 Vos moved to the women's elite class ; Since then she has always been part of the same team, which has been called the Rabobank Women Cycling Team since 2012 . At the beginning of 2006 she was European and World Champion in cyclocross ahead of the German Hanka Kupfernagel . On the road she won the Dutch road cycling championship, and in October she became world champion in road racing in Salzburg .

By 2013 Marianne Vos had won a total of twelve world championship titles on track, road and in cyclo-cross races, plus 16 national titles (including two titles on the mountain bike ) and two European titles. She won two Olympic gold medals, in 2008 in the points race and 2012 in the road race. She won the women's cycling world cup five times and the Giro d'Italia Femminile three times . She also won around 30 relevant road races. When she defended her title for the second time at the UCI Road World Championships in 2013 , an English newspaper named her Flying Dutchwoman : "She rode out with the No 1 on her back and rode home with her position as the greatest female cyclist underlined [... ]. "(Eng. =" She drove out with the number 1 on her back and came back after emphasizing her position as the greatest female cyclist [...]. ")

In 2015, Marianne Vos had to take a long break from racing to heal several injuries. In July 2015 it was announced that she would not contest any road races this season and also not the road world championships , so that her start at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was in jeopardy. Vos started racing again in March 2016.

In the spring of 2018 she broke her at Liege-Bastogne-Liege , the collarbone , but won this year after however, among other things Ratings of BeNe Ladies Tour and the Ladies Tour of Norway and the silver medal in the road race of the European Championships .

Vos finished third in the 2019 Cross Country Championship and won a total of 19 races and the 2019 UCI Women's WorldTour annual ranking in the following road season . However, she had to cancel the following cross season in January 2020 because she had to undergo an operation on the inguinal artery.

Honors

Between 2006 and 2013 Marianne Vos was named Dutch cyclist of the year seven times . In 2008, 2009 and 2013 she was also athlete of the year in the Netherlands . In 2013 she also received the international Velo Award as cyclist of the year .

Marianne Vos was honored with the induction into the Hall of Fame of the European cycling association Union Européenne de Cyclisme .

In a list of the top hundred athletes in the Netherlands in December 2013, Marianne Vos ranked 15th.

In February 2010, the mayor of her home town Aalburg announced that a 29.5 kilometer long bike path there would be named after her Marianne Vos fietsroute .

According to a Dutch columnist, Vos was not only the "best cyclist in history" in 2011, surpassing Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel and Jeannie Longo , but also the best sportswoman the Netherlands had ever produced.

In September 2017 Marianne Vos was elected to the UCI Athletes Commission.